Re: [Lynx-dev] "-underscore" not working

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, siznax wrote:

> On 10/31/10 1:06 PM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, siznax wrote:
> > > so, is this a bug? or can i change my config somehow as a
> >
> > color-style is a compile-time feature (you'd have to recompile lynx to
> > change it). If you need advice on this, this is the place to ask...
>
> ok thanks, i may try that, but other tools give more
> satisfying results than lynx -dump for preserving
> formatting by default, but Lynx seems to give the most
> "readable" result (outside of the spacing issues).
>
> i'd be more interested in pursuing this if it were a bug,
> and there were a possibility of having -underscore in a
> future release for all my lynxen where recompilation
> is problematic.
>
> perhaps the documentation is misleading?
>
>  -underscore
>      toggles use of _underline_ format in dumps.

It's misleading in the sense that it was a difference between the original
and color-style (which might be something that could be added to
color-style).  I'll check on that.

For the non-dump case, lynx with the color-style can be setup to
look much like the original configuration.  Given that, and that
the color-style looks nicer, I changed the compile-time default.

> > > btw, is there a way to force double-spacing of line breaks,
> >
> > no... lynx is storing chunks of lines in buckets no bigger than 1024.
> >
> > (it's "possible" to recompile with a bigger bucket-size, but not
> > well-tested)
>
> aw. a "no_wrap" option (width=-1 ?) would be so great.

yes, but that memory organization is embedded in a lot of places...
I might tackle that sometime, but it's not a simple thing to change.

> i'm interested in getting Markdown compatible output. so
> far, this is proving difficult.
>
> /siznax

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